The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-08-26
NEWS.
Friday, Aug. 26. 1887,
MINOR LOCALS

The Farmers CluD neld tneir Au
gust meeting at w. w. Moore's on
Thursday yesterday
Rev, Il, Snowden Thomas will preach
In the NJ. E. Church at Rising Sun on
Sunday next.
The first cold wave put in its appear
ance on Wednesday night, presaglhg
frost in the near future.
The Capt. Snow Post at Pleasant
Grove will hold festival tomorrow
afternoon at that place.
The West Nottingham Presbyterian
Social Association held a basket picnic
at Gilpins' Rocks yesterday.
The public schools of Cecil county
will open for the fall term on Thursday
next, September lst.
School Books, States, Paper, Copy
Books, Ink, Pencils, ETC., at DIR.
Kinks Drug Store.
Mr.. o. P. Clempson Of Elkton lost
q horse, gored to death by a Alderney
bull, last week.
s. Delaplare Mccullough, brother of
J. T. Mccullough, lost his pocketoook
containing over 800 aud some valua-
BILE papers.
DIR. Jas. L. Bryan who was recently
elected president of the Maryland Ag-
ricultural College has declined the
honor.
We call the attention of builders to the
advertisement in another column OF
hrsoIY Tor colo nv (HnCrp1
d. Bender, Oxford, Pa.
WWe keep on hand full line of
Magistrates Blanks. Orders by mail
filled al short notice from the MID
LAND Office.
Miss Mary McDougal is lying dan
gerausly i'll of malarial fever at her
uncle's, w. J. McDougal, on Harris
willie Avenue.
Owing to illness of the principal,
w. F. Oyerholt, the Friends Normal
Institute will not open until Septem-'
Der 9Th.
The Rising Sun Cornet Band will
furnish the music for the Capt. Snow
Post picnic to come off tomorrow at
Pleasant Grove.
Rev. Amos R. Brown occupied Rev.
I. JEWELS pulpit in this town on Sum
day last the latter gentleman being on
visit among his relatives on the east
ern shore.
Don't forget the peaches and cream
festival tomorrow evening in the pub.
lie Hall. Peaches and cream are goou
deal of a luxury this season.
The lecture of Edward H. Magill in
the Normal School building tomorrow
evening, on temperance will be well
worth hearing. Every body who can
should attend.
H.C. Cummings had one of his liv-
cry horses badly foundertd this week
He imputes the founder to washing the
animals legs with cold water while
quite warm, Immediately after driving
Mr.. Cummings livery business is
growing so rapidly that he finds more
stable and carriage room necessary, and
is about moving back his sable which
will give room for charging and I'M
proving.
~ Fine card printing and com.
mercial job work done at the MID
LAND Office at moderate prices. The
best of work guaranteed.
Lewis Greenfield, son Of John and
Lydia Greenfield. who reside on the
''ridge" near Cecil Paper Mill, died on
Saturday morning last of diptherla.
The deceased was Is years of age.
Will Pogue lost fine horse on Sun
day night. He had driven the horse
on Sunday and did not notice that the
animal was sick. The horse was found
dead in the stable in the morning.
The Brickley & Mccullough excur-
sion train on Tuesday morning had
G5 passengers on board when it reached
Rising Sun station. Twenty more got
on here.
One of Charles L. Peoples children,
boy II or Is years old, fell on the
porch on Saturday last, by which &C
cident one of his arms was fractured.
The family reside near the ''red pump
Miss Lizzie Smithsen, of Baltimore,
who has been spending the summer at
her mothers at Mount Pleasant and
with friends in Wilmington, expects
to return to Baltimore this week much
improved i'll health.
The sweet corn crop is large and our
canneries have had all they could han.
die since commencing operations and
could have had a good deal more by
saying the word. The wet weather
makes the outlook for the tomato crop
dismal in the extreme.
Elizabeth Brown, wife of Elisha
Brown living about two miles east OF
Rising Sun, died on Tuesday night OF
typhoid fever. The deceased was Is
Years of age. She will be buried at
Rose Bank Cemetery Saturday at II
A. NJ.
Hon. Henry Vandeford, of Westmin'
ster, thinks he is the third Oldest editor
in the State, being in his seventy-sixth
year. The last time we had the pleasure
of meeting him he looked good for a
number of years, in robust health and
fine spirits.
The bee papers report the honey crop